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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by pydry on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:23PM (#27256741)
I didn't say it was a success.

The US is no stranger to strategic military intervention that costs lives and money and achieves nothing very substantial - from Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by dnautics on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:34PM (#27256841)
Speaking of which - what was the profit motive in Vietnam? There was definitely geopolitical motive, but I can't imagine there was a "rich American" person or corporation calling the shots for themselves in indochina
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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by type0 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:07PM (#27257133)
What are you talking about, the military industrial complex made an insane amounts of money from that war.
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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by dnautics on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:23PM (#27257273)
> The US intervenes in plenty of places where there is no profit motive outside of the standard military industrial complex.

It was the cold war. I'm pretty sure the MIC could have justified so much spending in other ways besides vietnam, but we are venturing into counterfactual territory.

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